More Cat Flap Fiasco…

After our troubles with uninvited feline guests we installed (eventually) an electronic cat flap that worked off Sooty’s microchip and we thought our problems were solved. But for the last few months one of the solenoids that locked the door against the cat raiders become faulty and eventually it stopped working all together, so we could either lock our cat out with all the others or allow them all free reign of our house. A big fluffy black cat from a few doors down is a particular bully and he also sprays all over the place so we wanted to keep him out. So with the weather getting colder we had to make a decision and we bought a new cat flap, similar to the first but that ran off batteries and which had a slightly simpler way of programming it. The idea was you set it to program and the next cat that came through would be remembered, unfortunately somewhere down the line it seems it might have got programmed for the bully, so we had to reset it and ‘post’ Sooty (very reluctantly) through the hole to ensure that the right cat got programmed. Our cat is not the sharpest tool in the box and it has taken him sometime to get the hang of the new flap, sometimes he just gives up and waits for us to open it for him. Never mind, hopefully that will be it for cat flap issues for a while.